Five -
year survival rates among people with localized colon cancers are more than 90 percent, but they are only 20 percent in those with metastatic cancer.
In fact, the 5 -
year survival rate among patients with metastatic melanoma is only 16 %.
Not exact matches
Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15
years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence
rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its
survival rate has increased significantly over the
years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death
among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second
among children aged 1 to 14
years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few
years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death
rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2
He noted there is a huge unmet need for this type of precision medicine
among lung transplant patients, who experience the shortest of all
survival rates, often running into transplant trouble within five
years.
According to the report, cancer incidence is 15 % higher
among African - American men than
among white, non-Hispanic men; all minority groups have higher
rates of stomach cancer than white Americans; and the 5 -
year cancer
survival rate of Native Americans is only about two - thirds that of whites.
After one
year,
survival rates and neurobehavioral function (including measures of motor function, communication, social skills and daily living tasks) were similar
among children from both treatment groups.
Ongoing disagreement
among scientists over how to sustain high
survival rates for salmon once the ocean warms up again placed the National Marine Fisheries Service in a cross fire last
year.
Among the whole study population, the 5 -
year overall
survival probability
rate was 70 %; it was 78 % for the 15 - mg / kg group compared with 62 % in the 30 - mg / kg group (P =.045).
The level of an individual's education also coincided with
survival rates: 67 percent
among those who had fewer than 12
years of education; 81 percent
among people with 12
years of education; and 85 percent for those with more than 12
years of education.
The two -
year survival rate was 30 %
among the 117 patients taking metformin and just 15 %
among 185 patients not on the drug.
The health - protective effects of marriage extended over a 5 -
year period in which the
survival rate among married patients was almost twice that of their unmarried counterparts.